Company : International Volunteer HQ (IVHQ)
Activities : Education Programmes / Teaching / Language Projects / Charity
Countries : Ecuador
Location : Quito
Spanish is the official language of Ecuador yet in recent times with the onset of globalisation and increasing tourism, there has been an increased demand from local people to be taught English by fluent foreigners.
Work is mainly at schools and directed towards children but there is also a lot of demand from community groups and adult groups we work with. Volunteers are placed in community schools, public schools or orphanage schools. Many of the people volunteers teach have only very basic English, therefore it is a requirement for volunteers to have at least a beginner-basic level of Spanish to teach on this program. Naturally a volunteer's Spanish will improve over the course of their volunteering but it is highly recommended that the volunteer take advantage of the Spanish lessons offered by our program staff in Ecuador. NB Volunteers DO NOT need to be a qualified or experienced teacher.
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